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Reference numberMC/4/12
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society], Woolwich, to [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]
Date8 March 1844
DescriptionRegarding the Society's exchange of the 'Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations' with continental and American magnetic observatories, as well as [George Biddell] Airy's part in this.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
NA8035Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician1801 - 1892
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